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Protests in Greenland continue as most lawmakers in the U.S. seem to agree that taking over the arctic country isn't the right step for the U.S. (Kristian Tuxen Ladegaard Berg/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

The cracks in Trump’s Greenland strategy

CK Smith
Scott Bessent speaks at the National Conservative Conference in Washington D.C., Wednesday, July 10, 2024. (Dominic Gwinn/Getty Images)

Layoffs reach two-decade high: report

Garrett Owen
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Social misery in the Age of Trump

Chauncey DeVega
Scott Bessent speaks at the National Conservative Conference in Washington D.C., Wednesday, July 10, 2024. (Dominic Gwinn/Getty Images)

Bessent: I'm a soybean farmer too

Alex Galbraith
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Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., speaks during the news conference on President Bidens budget in the Capitol on Thursday, March 9, 2023. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Dems call out Trump's IRS assault

Garrett Owen
President Donald Trump speaks before signing an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House on March 31, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Trump's tough talk on tariffs is BS

Alex Galbraith
Elon Musk arrives for US President Donald Trump's address to a joint session of Congress in the House Chamber of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on March 4, 2025. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Bessent bashes Musk's America Party

Alex Galbraith
Scott Bessent, Howard Lutnick and Elon Musk in the White House. (Allison Robbert/Getty Images)

WH: Musk, Bessent row was no "fistfight"

Alex Galbraith
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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during an executive order signing in the Oval Office at the White House on February 11, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

NPR fights back against Trump order

Blaise Malley
Scott Bessent, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be Treasury secretary, testifies during his Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing in Dirksen building on Thursday, January 16, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Senate Dems stop Trump's big crypto bill

Natalie Chandler
Elon Musk, co-founder of Tesla and SpaceX and owner of X Holdings Corp., speaks at the Milken Institute's Global Conference at the Beverly Hilton Hotel,on May 6, 2024 in Beverly Hills, California. (Apu Gomes/Getty Images)

Musk, Bessent had shouting match in WH

Alex Galbraith
U.S. President Donald Trump addresses the 2025 Republican Issues Conference at the Trump National Doral Miami on January 27, 2025 in Doral, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Trump, Bessent hint at tariff cooldown

Alex Galbraith
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Former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump dances onstage after his speech during a campaign rally at the PPL Center in Allentown, Pennsylvania, on October 29, 2024. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump announces 90-day tariff pause

Alex Galbraith
Elon Musk, Department of Government Efficiency leader, speaks at the first cabinet meeting of President Donald J Trump's second term at the White House on Wednesday, Feb 26, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Trump's tariff message gets muddled

Heather Digby Parton
Scott Bessent, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be Treasury secretary, testifies during his Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing in Dirksen building on Thursday, January 16, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

MAGA runs defense against recession talk

Alex Galbraith
Tesla CEO Elon Musk (LUDOVIC MARIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Judge restrains DOGE Treasury access

Griffin Eckstein
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Tesla, SpaceX and X CEO Elon Musk (R) arrives to the inauguration of US President-elect Donald Trump in the Rotunda of the US Capitol on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. (SHAWN THEW/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Musk staffer lands top Treasury gig

Griffin Eckstein
Scott Bessent, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be Treasury secretary, testifies during his Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing in Dirksen building on Thursday, January 16, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Consumer agency is latest Trump purge

Quinn Sental
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk attends the inauguration ceremony where Donald Trump will sworn in as the 47th US President in the US Capitol Rotunda in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025. (KENNY HOLSTON/THE NEW YORK TIMES/11276477p/AFP via Getty Images)

Treasury official pushed out by Musk

Griffin Eckstein
Scott Bessent, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be Treasury secretary, testifies during his Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing in Dirksen building on Thursday, January 16, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Bessent confirmed as treasury secretary

Daria Solovieva
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Boris Epshteyn, an advisor to former President Donald Trump, Republican presidential nominee, arrives to the Fiserv Forum on the second day of Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wis., on Tuesday, July 16, 2024. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Boris Epshteyn accused of seeking bribes

Charles R. Davis
Scott Bessent speaks at the National Conservative Conference in Washington D.C., Wednesday, July 10, 2024. (Dominic Gwinn/Getty Images)

Trump taps hedge fund boss for Treasury

Griffin Eckstein
Howard Lutnick, CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald and former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump (L) attend a remembrance ceremony on the 23rd anniversary of the September 11 terror attack on the World Trade Center at Ground Zero, in New York City on September 11, 2024. (ADAM GRAY/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump debates Treasury Department pick

Marin Scotten
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